Martin Jol: We’re still league leaders

Al Ahly manager Martin Jol expressed his trust in his players despite losing to Al Masry 3-2 in the Egyptian Premier League on Monday.

It was no easy match for Al Ahly as Hossam Hassan’s men were on top of their game and the Red Devils weren’t completely present in the match, failing to overturn a 3-0 deficit to lose 3-2. A performance to forget from Jol’s players.

Al Ahly remain on top of the Egyptian Premier League however, five points ahead of 2014/15 league winners Zamalek with three matches remaining.

Commenting on the title race after the match, Jol said, “I have faith in my players to complete the title race. We only need four points from the coming three matches to win the league.”

“It was a tough day and there’s no one to blame but ourselves. The defensive mistake that lead to the first goal was reason for the players’ confusion in the first half.”

“We made many mistakes, we had to be defensively better. We also had to move the ball in Al Masry’s midfield in a better way.”

Jol commenting on the unfortunate events of the match said, “The tide was against us, we hit the post three times and Evouna, Sobhy and Zakaria got injured.”

“Congratulations for Al Masry, they played very well converting the few chances they had in the match scoring three goals from four chances,” Jol concluded.

Youssef Wael is a massive Al Ahly and Manchester United supporter from Cairo, Egypt. One of the few Egyptians who never really wanted to have a career in football, just played it as a hobby. Wael also played squash for 7 years.